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alt_billAt Severus' suggestion, I checked with my source in MLE to see if I could learn more about the group that Ron and Sally-Anne caught sneaking into a field at the Stretton Estates to pilfer Diviner's Mint. My excuse for asking was that Mum, being the overprotective sort, has been wittering over whether it would be safe for Ron to continue accompanying his girlf Sally-Anne Perks on her patrols around the borders of her foster family's property. Therefore, entirely to reassure my overprotective Mum (sorry, Mum), I wanted to know: has the entire group been caught? Does MLE know who they were?
My source apparently accepted that, but was a bit coy; she said she'd trade for the information. She wanted to know where Sally-Anne had stashed her wand so that the people who seized her and Ron didn't find it initially. Well, naturally I can't tell my source about the Institute's very clever bracelets. So I've stalled for the moment, and told the source that I'd check with Mum, to see if Sally-Anne or Ron had given her any more details.
Ron and Sally-Anne, what did you tell the Enforcers who responded to the MLE patronus about the wand? I don't want what I tell my source to contradict anything you've already said. Perhaps I could admit that somehow you shielded it with a Notice-Me-Not spell, although I'm a bit wary of suggesting that you use something like that. What do you all think? It might raise suspicions we don't want about your propensity for hiding things--unless you can think of an acceptable excuse. Anything come to mind?
My source apparently accepted that, but was a bit coy; she said she'd trade for the information. She wanted to know where Sally-Anne had stashed her wand so that the people who seized her and Ron didn't find it initially. Well, naturally I can't tell my source about the Institute's very clever bracelets. So I've stalled for the moment, and told the source that I'd check with Mum, to see if Sally-Anne or Ron had given her any more details.
Ron and Sally-Anne, what did you tell the Enforcers who responded to the MLE patronus about the wand? I don't want what I tell my source to contradict anything you've already said. Perhaps I could admit that somehow you shielded it with a Notice-Me-Not spell, although I'm a bit wary of suggesting that you use something like that. What do you all think? It might raise suspicions we don't want about your propensity for hiding things--unless you can think of an acceptable excuse. Anything come to mind?
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Date: 2013-08-15 04:03 am (UTC)BuggeBother. I told the Enforcers I hid it under my robes and hoped no one would enquire too closely, and they were excited enough about catching crooks and finding illicit potion ingredients and all the rest that no one asked me too many questions.Tell her I put it in a discreet purse I use for carrying supplies for my monthly visitor. Which I DID have under my robe so it wasn't a lie. (I mean, tell her that, I didn't really have a purse under there but if she's a woman she'll believe I had one.) I didn't want to get into the details with the MALE Enforcer who was interviewing me so I didn't offer details he didn't ask for.
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Date: 2013-08-15 04:06 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2013-08-15 04:21 am (UTC)Oh, and if you do have a purse like that, you should expand it so it's big enough to hold a wand, and put a Notice-Me-Not spell on it, too. Just in case my source passes this along to her superiors, and MLE decides to stop by to doublecheck the story. I seriously doubt they will, but let's cover that detail, just in case.
(And thanks, Mum, for being our go-between on this theoretical conversation. Because believe me, I'd be rather embarrassed if I did try to conduct it myself in person.)